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The 869 Jogan Sanriku earthquake and associated tsunami struck the area around Sendai in the northern part of Honshu on 9 July 869 (26th day of 5th month, 11th year of Jogan). The earthquake had an estimated magnitude of 8.6 on the surface wave magnitude scale. The tsunami caused widespread flooding of the Sendai plain, with sand deposits being found up to 4 kilometres from the coast. 
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Title: Tsunami source of the unusual AD 869 earthquake off Miyagi, Japan, inferred from tsunami deposits and numerical simulation of inundation
Authors: Satake, K.; Sawai, Y.; Shishikura, M.; Okamura, Y.; Namegaya, Y.; Yamaki, S.

The 869 Jogan earthquake, off Miyagi, produced unusually large tsunamis, according to a historical document and tsunami deposits. One of the oldest official documents in Japan reported that about 1,000 people were drowned from the tsunami in Sendai plain, indicating much larger tsunami than the 1896 Sanriku tsunami (the worst tsunami disaster in Japan caused by a tsunami earthquakes) or the 1933 Sanriku tsunami (caused by the outer-rise normal fault event). Our systematic field surveys revealed the distribution of tsunami deposits in Sendai and Ishinomaki plains. In both plains, the 869 tsunami deposits are identified as sand layers just below the regional tephra (To-A from Towada volcano in AD 915). In Sendai plain, the tsunami deposits extend about 1 to 3 km from the coast line at that time, which is estimated as about 1 km inland of the present coast. In Ishinomaki plain, the tsunami deposits extend > 3 km from the estimated coast line, which is about 1-1.5 km inland of the present coast. Multiple sand layers indicate recurrence of such unusual tsunamis with approximately 1,000 yr interval. We computed tsunami inundation in both plains from several types of tsunami source models such as outer-rise normal fault, tsunami earthquakes (narrow fault near trench axis), interplate earthquakes with fault widths of 50 and 100 km. Comparison of the computed inundation area with the distribution of tsunami deposits indicates that only an interplate earthquake source with 100 km width (depth range of 20 to 50 km) can reproduce the observed distribution of tsunami deposits in both Sendai and Ishinomaki plains. This source (Mw=8.1 to 8.3) is much larger than the anticipated Miyagi-oki earthquake (M~~7.5) with 99% probability in the next 30 years.

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